The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-25
A SPURIOUS ANATHEMA.
THE ALLEGED PAPAL BULL
AGAINST McGLYNN A FRAUD.

Rev. Lawrence Sterne's Parody on
accommodation Circulated as the
Form Used in matchmaking the
Anti-Poverty Prolate-What the True
Form is, and From Whence it is
Obtained.
On Sunday, July II, the New York SIN
printed long article entitled, Tho Old
Form of Excunmunicntion-T AHathena
Used in Former Time, but Not in the Case
of DR.. McGIynnm This article has been
copied extensively throughout the country,
aud frequently it has been represented as
the Papal bull directed against DR.. Nc
Glynn. 1t is an anathena of the most vio-
lent type, and not without good
deal of blasphemy. 1t curses every
part of the Offenders spiritual
and anatomical self, and calls
upon all the hosts Of heaven, the Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost, the Virgin Mary, st.
Michael, all the angels and archangcls, prin-
cipalities and powers, and all the heavenly
armies. and everything and every soul to DO
likewise. In mentioning what is to Le
cursed, and when, it says:
May he be cursed in his brains and in his
vertex In his temples, in his forehead, in his
ear, in his eyebrows, III his cheeks In his jaw
bone. in his noStTis. in his foreteeth and grind
ers, in his lips in his throat in bis shoulders, in
bis wrist, in his arms, iii his breast, in his heal
and purtcnance. and in his bOttOmeSt stomach,
in his reins and in his groin, in his thighs, and
IN his hips and in his knees, his legs and feet,
and toe nails.
May he be cursed in all the joints and articula-
tons OF his members fTsm the top Of his head to
the sole of his FOOT May there be no soundness
in him.
May he be cursed in living, in dying, I'm eating
and drinking, in being hungry, in being thirsty,
in fasting, in sleeping, in sumbering, IN
waking, in walking, in standing in sit
ting, in lying, in working, in resting
Bishop Becker was asked yesterday if this
was the form of accommodation used by the
Roman Catholic Church and he denounced
1t as absurd, ridiculous and blasphemous
He said that it never had been a part of the
discipline of the Church, but was parody
upon accommodation written by Rev.
Lawrence Sterne in 'Tristram Shandy."
Rev. Mr.. Sterne was a priest of the
Church of England and disgrace to
his cloth. His Tristram Shandy as well as
others of bis works were vulgar as anything
ever written in English, except perhaps Tom
Jones and Gulliyer'S Travels. He desired to
ridicule the Roman Church and therefore he
put the words of his own form of ex-commu
AlSehtiol LII ViiC iuOubll Vi OHClo IL
was not original even then, however, for
Sterne stole the idea and much Of
the phraseology from one of the works
of Burton, the auatomist. This alleged
form of communication has been known
ever since, Tristram Shandy has been
in print and has never been seriously con-
sidered as the one in use In the Church The
true form is alteEable. It is based upon the
curses Moses proclaimed should fall
no x,f II
refused to heaiken unto the voice of God
and observe his statuets and commandments,
Deuteronomy, xviii, Is to the end; and
st. Pauls command to deliver an offender
unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh,
l. Corinthians, v, ). Taking these two por-
tions of Scripture as examples the bulls are
written and no set form is used.
Like all parodies there is a degree of SINH
larity between Sterne's bull and the curse of
Moses, the foundation of the Papal bulls
but the similarity is drawn in blasphemy
The idea of the quotation given above is
from the 10th, 17th, 18th, 10Th and 35th
verses of the twenty eighth chapter of Deu-
teronomy, which reads:
Cursed shalt thou De in the city, and cursed
shalt thou be in thu field.
Cursed shalt be thy basket and thy store.
Cursed shalt be the fruit of thy land, the in
crease Of thy kind and the fiocks OF thy sheep
Cursed shalt thou be when thou coInest in,
and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
The Lord ghalt smite thee in the knees and in
the legs with a sore botoh that cannot be healed
from the sole of thy foot to the top of thy
head.
And thus throughout the Scriptural
anathema is taken as the model of "Uncle
Toby's" curse. Bishop Becker expressed
great surprise that so many people had &C
copied the alleged form as the true one,
particularly as "Tristram Shandy" is a
work SO well known to readers.